While adding cameos and references to, among others, Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, it suddenly struck me that it might be necessary to put up a warning about adult content in some of the linked strips in the Archive, just so as we (I) don't get in trouble when little Johnny-Five-Year follows a cameo-thread through several PG-comics, and suddenly ends up in things like Ghastly.

Now, would it be enough with a general warning in the front/main page, or should the warning be added to all entries?

I would prefer the first option since the latter would require me to change all pages, but what do you think? Anyone having experience with this kind of action?

If you look at the entries for either H. Morgan Art or Ghastly's Ghastly Comic you will see a MA content warning below the site's logo acting, the logo that act's as a direct link to the site's main page.

If you check out Megatokyo, you will notice a smaller MA just next to the link pointing to the cameo-page in Ghastly's.

So far I'm of the opinion that these should justify as fair warnings, but what do you think?

I'm thinking of adding the small strip-specific link to all links that points to a site with MA-content, even if the specific strip is clean as snow, you never know when somebody decides to go a step further...

I'll probably put up a general small-type warning on the front-page one of these days when I manage to put something together...

Notify me if you think there's sites there need the MA-warning. All decisions will in the end be up to me though, and will be based on my opinions!

And I think I can keep the paypal button for now, since its not that the site directly links to porn... we got something like 3 comics with smut-content so far out of almost 300 comics!
We'll wait and see, but you never know, the paypal might actually be used someday...

Any variation in which threads do or don't get spammed is almost entirely due to chance. Though some bots may specifically look for forums that haven't had any posts in a number of months, on the off chance that they may be abandoned.

Actually, recent instances of that on the Talkaboutcomics forums seem to have been done by live human beings.

Anyway, like I said in another forum, make me an admin and I'll sweep out the spam and tighten up the permissions - preserving the ability of guests to post on the Crossover Reports tread.

I HAVE slowly been tighthening security as I deemed it necessary, the option for guests to make new threads were removed from all the forums not so long ago, and I've slowly been deactivating guest-posting as a whole. The recent flood of spam in this thread made me run through all the forums and diasble the guest-posting as a whole...

Two forums will be the exception to that, namely:

Where the worlds come together
Halloween Cameo Caper 2007

These are the forums that, by their intended nature, needs the option for guest-posting for people not wanting to sign up just to report a cameo or participate in the Caper. We just need to strike fast and hard the spam that DO show up in these threads...

Signing up for a profile has also been upgraded to the level where you need an confirmation by email to access... though theres still automatic spambots that knows their way around this...

This SHOULD take care of the worst of the spams, though not everything... I think that will never be possible...